css - How to change navbar/container width? Bootstrap 3

Question

The default width for my navbar is too wide 1170px. I would like to reduce it down to 940px - but I want to keep the responsiveness.

I tried to change the container width in CSS and it looks ok with a large browser, but the rest of the page falls apart when viewing for mobile sizes.

Is this the correct property or is there something else?

@media (min-width: 1200px) {
  .container {
  max-width: 1170px;
}

Here is my navbar code

<div class="navbar navbar-inverse navbar-fixed-top">
      <div class="container">
        <div class="navbar-header">
          <button type="button" class="navbar-toggle" data-toggle="collapse" data-target=".navbar-collapse">
            <span class="icon-bar"></span>
            <span class="icon-bar"></span>
            <span class="icon-bar"></span>

          </button>
          <a class="navbar-brand" href="#">Site Name</a>
        </div>

        <div class="collapse navbar-collapse">

          <ul class="nav navbar-nav navbar-right">
            <li class="active"><a href="#shop">Shop</a></li>
            <li><a href="#showcase">Showcase</a></li>
            <li><a href="#help">Help</a></li>
            <li><a href="#my account">My Account</a></li>
            <li><a href="#cart">Cart <span class="glyphicon glyphicon-shopping-cart"></span></a></li>
          </ul>
        </div><!--/.nav-collapse -->
      </div>
  </div>

Answer 1

I just solved this issue myself. You were on the right track.

@media (min-width: 1200px) {
    .container{
        max-width: 970px;
    }
}

Here we say: On viewports 1200px or larger - set container max-width to 970px. This will overwrite the standard class that currently sets max-width to 1170px for that range.

NOTE: Make sure you include this AFTER the bootstrap.css stuff (everyone has made this little mistake in the past).

Hope this helps.. good luck!